thenerdsofcolor.org

thenerdsofcolor.org

There would have been a lot of positivity gained by having Maggie Sawyer be a lesbian Latina woman fighting aliens and evil corporate masterminds on Supergirl alongside Alex Danvers and the other Supergirl characters. She would have acted as a much needed addition to positive depictions of queer Latinx characters in our media.

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Let it be said, I don’t view La Borinquña as a typical “superhero” story, in that there’s a set-up, there’s an action scene, and then there’s victory at the end of the day where the bad guy is punched and thrown into jail. In fact, there’s very little costumed superheroing featured in La Borinquña. Rather, Marisol is a hero, but she isn’t held back by the traditional parameters of costumed superheroing.